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Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 October, 2024

Following the recent concerns over Bitwarden potentially moving further away from open-source given SDK changes that appeared, Bitwarden has now further addressed the situation to ease the community concerns...

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KDE Fixing Many Bugs, Prepping New Plasma 6.3 Features

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 October, 2024

KDE developers continue being very busy prepping more bug fixes for the Plasma 6.2.x series while continuing to work on new feature material for Plasma 6.3...

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Linux Fixes "Meltdown Lite" Mitigation Handling On Newer Zen 5 CPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 October, 2024

Linus Torvalds took to some coding himself today to fix a user-address masking non-canonical speculation issue. The Linux kernel needed an adaptation for this "Meltdown Lite" issue due to different behavior with the latest AMD Zen 5 processors...

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Intel Core Ultra 5 245K Linux Performance

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 October, 2024

Yesterday for the Intel Core Ultra 200S Arrow Lake launch date was my extensive look at the Core Ultra 9 285K under Ubuntu Linux for that 24-core desktop processor. Under focus today is the lower-tier Intel Core Ultra 5 245K with a large variety of Linux performance benchmarks for showing how this 14-core processor compares to prior Intel Core CPUs as well as the AMD Ryzen competition atop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

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AMDGPU Changes Readied For Linux 6.13: Runtime Repartitioning, Many Fixes

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 October, 2024

A big batch of AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel graphics and compute driver updates were mailed in for DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel cycle...

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Linux Support Continues For The Now-Canceled Snapdragon X Elite Dev Kit For Windows

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 October, 2024

While last week Qualcomm canceled their Snapdragon X Elite Dev Kit as a $899 USD mini PC built for Windows 11 on ARM and powered by the X1 Elite SoC, the upstreaming Linux support for it is continuing...

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DRM Client Library Code Ready Ahead Of Linux 6.13

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 October, 2024

The newest drm-misc-next pull request was submitted today ahead of the Linux 6.13 merge window opening up in about one month's time...

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FUTEX2 NUMA & Small Futexes Revived For Linux

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 October, 2024

Back in 2020~2021 there was lots of talk and work around FUTEX2 for improving the Linux kernel's Futex implementation for fast user mutex. The FUTEX2 work was driven in large part for helping Steam Play / Wine gaming by better matching the behavior of Microsoft Windows with its WaitForMultipleObjects handling. While the initial code landed back in Linux 5.16, there's been other remaining FUTEX2 features still desired like variable-sized futexes and NUMA-awareness. Finally now we're seeing that work revived...

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Cloud Hypervisor 42 Released With SVE/SVE2 Support For AArch64 Guests

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 October, 2024

Cloud Hypervisor 42.0 is out as the newest update of this open-source, Rust-based hypervisor that began as an Intel software project but is now developed by a number of different organizations from Arm to Microsoft...